The AV Club has posted the latest chapter of its Undercover live covers series. This week it's Mates of State -- along with guests, including comedian Todd Barry on drums -- tackling the 1984 Replacements classic "I Will Dare," originally found on Let It Be. You can click Read More to watch the performance.

Appropriately, Mates of State released a covers album entitled Crushes earlier this year.

I appreciate it when a band goes out on a limb and totally fuck up like this. That, to me, shows a certain kind of ambition and willingness to make mistakes and I think that is a quality of all the greatest musicians and artists. And what better way to pay tribute to the 'Mats, who also butchered plenty of other classics during their day.

I was on board until the chorus. Although the best reasons they could come up with for covering the song being "We didn't have a lot of options, and I'm from Minnesota!" and "People seem to like them, I guess" did not bode well.

I don't know why people would hate on this version. It's well done. It has the Mates of State sound and you can grasp what they are doing. Of all the A.V. covers this is hardly the worst. I mean, did you hear Rise Against? Fuck, awful.